List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (S)

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The French government gives out the Legion of Honour awards, to both French [1] and foreign [2] nationals, based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France. This award is divided into five distinct categories (in ascending order [3] ), i.e. three ranks: Knight, Officer, Commander, and two titles: Grand Officer and Grand Cross. Knight is the most common and is awarded for either at least 20 years of public service or acts of military or civil bravery. [3] The rest of the categories have a quota for the number of years of service in the category below before they can be awarded. The Officer rank requires a minimum of eight years as a Knight, and the Commander, the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, requires a minimum of five years as an Officer. The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross are awarded only to French citizens, and each requires three years' service in their respective immediately lower rank. [4] The awards are traditionally published and promoted on 14 July. [5]

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The following is a non-exhaustive list of recipients of the Legion of Honour awards, since the first ceremony in May 1803. [3] 2,550 individuals can be awarded the insignia every year. [5] The total number of awards is close to 1 million [6] (estimated at 900,000 in 2021, [5] including over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients [7] ), with some 92,000 recipients alive today. [8] Only until 2008 was gender parity achieved amongst the yearly list of recipients, with the total number of women recipients since the award's establishment being only 59 at the end of the second French empire and only 26,000 in 2021. [5]

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RecipientDates
(birth – death)		General Work, and reason for the recognitionAward Category (Date)
Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992 Indian film director, scriptwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer.TBA (1987) [9]
Sakip Sabanci 1933 – 2004 Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist Recognised for his contributions to the Franco-Turkish relationships in culture and business.TBA (2001)[ citation needed ]
Pari Saberi 1932 – present Iranian drama and theatre director.TBA (2004)[ citation needed ]
Anthony Sadler 1992 – presentAmerican author and television personality. Recognised along with Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, stopped a gunman on a Paris-bound train travelling from Amsterdam via Brussels (August 2015).Knight (24 August 2015) [10] [11]
Guy-Marie Sallier TBA[ citation needed ]
Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo 1942 – present Argentine Catholic bishop TBA (2000)[ citation needed ]
Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko 1768 – 1844Polish nobleman, general, military commander, diplomat and politician.Knight[ citation needed ]
Louis Santi ? – ~1925Knight
Grand Cross[ citation needed ]
Eran SachsTBA[ citation needed ]
Karine Saporta French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film Film director.Knight[ citation needed ]
Nicolas Sarkozy 1955 – presentFrench politician (President of France and 'ex officio' Co-Prince of Andorra)Knight (February 2005)[ citation needed ]
Jalal Sattari Iranian Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator. Recognised for his dedication to cause of the culture during his 50-year career as cultural activist.TBA [12]
Jérôme Savary 1942 – 2013Argentinian-French theater director and actor [13] Knight[ citation needed ]
Adolphe Sax 1814 – 1894Belgian inventor and musician. Known for creating the saxophone.Knight (1849)[ citation needed ]
Levon Sayan 1934 – presentFrench–Armenian impresario and producer, as well as an operatic tenor.Officer [14]
Paolo Scaroni 1946 – present Italian businessman (A.C. Milan / formerly Italian energy company Eni)TBA (November 2007) [15] [16]
Ary Scheffer TBA[ citation needed ]
Anne Cécile Schmitt1917 – 2011.Recogniosed for her actions in World War II.TBA[ citation needed ]
Guillaume Schnaebelé 1831 – 1900Awarded 1870/1 for his service in the Franco-Prussian War, he is better known for the Schnaebelé incident TBA (1877)[ citation needed ]
Dominique Schnapper TBA[ citation needed ]
Eugène Schneider TBA[ citation needed ]
Pierre Schneiter TBA[ citation needed ]
Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947 – presentAustrian-American actor, producer, businessman, retired bodybuilder, and former politician (38th governor of California). Recognised for his strong legacy of environmental achievements.Knight (2011)
Commander (28 April 2017) [17] [18] [19]
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. 1934 – 2012Retired United States Army General who, while he served as Commander-in-Chief (now known as "Combatant Commander") of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991.TBA[ citation needed ]
Martin Scorsese TBA[ citation needed ]
Papa Abdoulaye Seck Knight 2013 [20]
Herbert Scott R. N.Coxswain of an L.C.A delivering 47 Commando to Gold Beach, Normandy (1944).TBA[ citation needed ]
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta TBA[ citation needed ]
Marc Seguin 1786 – 1875French inventor and entrepreneur, invented the tubular steam engine and brought suspension bridge to continental EuropeTBA (1836)[ citation needed ]
Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur TBA[ citation needed ]
John F. R. Seitz
Monique Sené French, nuclear physicist.
Dominique Senequier Leading private equity investor.
Edgar Sengier
Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou 1941 – presentIranian writer and literary figure.
Andrzej Seweryn
Shah Rukh Khan
Ravi Shankar, India
Ali-Akbar Siassi Iranian intellectual, psychologist and politician during the 1930s and 1960s, serving as the country's Foreign Minister, Minister of Education, Chancellor of University of Tehran, and Minister of State without portfolio.
Djibril Sidibé World Cup winning footballer
Henryk Siemiradzki
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Władysław Sikorski
Rodrigo Augusto da Silva 1833 – 1889Brazilian politician (foreign minister and Senator, 1889), diplomat, lawyer, monarchist and journalist.Grand Cross [21] [22] [23]
Kumar de Silva Sri Lanka
Franklin Simon 1865 – 1934Honored for doing more to put American women in French styles.
Paul-Louis Simond 1858 – 1947French biologist who discovered the transmission of the bubonic plague through rat fleas.
Jules Herman Sitrick [24] Single-handedly captured 21 German soldiers during World War II.
Roy D. Simmons Jr.Recognised for his service during World War IIKnight (August 22, 2010)
Alek Skarlatos Together with his friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler.
Albert Skorupa1919 – present World War II veteran who served as an engineer. Honored alongside 99 other World War II veterans, as part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
Edward David Smout
Jan Smuts
Thomas D'Oyly Snow
Nelson Socorro, Venezuelan attorney, politician
Jacob Söderman
Michał Sokolnicki 1760 – 1816Polish general
Prak Sokhonn
Omar Soliman, (Omar Mahmoud Soliman)Egyptian Spy Chief till 2011
Jean-François André Sordet 1852 – 1923
Jean-Pierre SourdinAncien directeur d'un journal français en Australie; 51 ans d'activités professionnelles, associatives et de services militaires.
Prince Mangkra Souvannaphouma 1938 – presentLao Prince living in exile in France.
Józef Sowinski
Carl Andrew Spaatz
Edmund Charles Spencer World War I veteran. Awarded the Légion d'honneur on the 80th anniversary of the armistice.
John Strange Spencer-Churchill
Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill
Steven Spielberg American film director/producer.
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels 1881 – 1926American philanthropist who raised large amounts of money for France during World War I.TBA (1924)
Wacław Stachiewicz
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
Johannes Steinhoff
Stepa Stepanović
Ninian Stephen
Anthony Coningham Sterling
John Mills SterlingBrig. General, USAF Air Attaché US Embassy in Paris, France (World War II). Honored for certain "classified reasons".
Major A.J.A. Stewart ? – 2017 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Honoured for his part in the Normandy landings Landings.
Joseph Stilwell
Yates Stirling Jr. American Navy Rear Admiral
Bill Stone
Spencer Stone 1992 – presentAwarded for assisting in the prevention of an Islamic terrorist attack on French soil.
Julius Streicher German National Socialist publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer .1939 (before the war started).
Barbra Streisand
Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz, baron Strolz
Albert Edward StuartActions on D-Day during liberation of France.TBA (2016)
Doveton Sturdee
Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie
Evelyne Sullerot
Bruce Sundlun
Stevan Šupljikac
Léopold Survage
Nikolai Sverchkov
Greggory Swarz U.S. Airman. Recognised for pulling three French airmen from the burning wreckage of a Greek F-16 jet (26 January 2015).
Stefan Szlaszewski

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The French government gives out the Legion of Honour awards, to both French and foreign nationals, based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France. This award is divided into five distinct categories, i.e. three ranks: Knight, Officer, Commander, and two titles: Grand Officer and Grand Cross. Knight is the most common and is awarded for either at least 20 years of public service or acts of military or civil bravery. The rest of the categories have a quota for the number of years of service in the category below before they can be awarded. The Office rank requires a minimum of eight years as a Knight, and the Commander, the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, requires a minimum of five years as an Officer. The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross each require three years' service in their respective immediately lower rank. The awards are traditionally published and promoted on 14 July.

References

  1. ↑ Légion Code, article 16.
  2. ↑ Les étrangers qui se seront signalés par les services qu’ils ont rendus à la France ou aux causes qu’elle soutient, Légion Code, art. 128.
  3. 1 2 3 "France train attack: Chris Norman awarded Legion d'honneur". BBC News . 24 August 2015. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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